Food
So what does it eat?' you may be asking.
The vampire squid eats 'Marine snow'. This 'Marine snow' is actually a mixture of dead bodies of smaller fish and debris and waste. The vampire squid is the only cephalopod (an active predatory mollusk of the large class Cephalopoda, such as an octopus or squid) that does not eat live pray. It's eating habits are very strange. It captures it with thread like filaments that were shared with the ancestral squids (These filaments do not count as arms!). The vampire squid's mouth is covered in mucus-producing cells used to glue together marine snow. The vampire squid also has a beak. This beak is strong and can break through hard shell. The beak could be used as a defense mechanism. It has been found in the stomachs of deep diving whales and pinnepedes such as sea lions.
The vampire squid eats 'Marine snow'. This 'Marine snow' is actually a mixture of dead bodies of smaller fish and debris and waste. The vampire squid is the only cephalopod (an active predatory mollusk of the large class Cephalopoda, such as an octopus or squid) that does not eat live pray. It's eating habits are very strange. It captures it with thread like filaments that were shared with the ancestral squids (These filaments do not count as arms!). The vampire squid's mouth is covered in mucus-producing cells used to glue together marine snow. The vampire squid also has a beak. This beak is strong and can break through hard shell. The beak could be used as a defense mechanism. It has been found in the stomachs of deep diving whales and pinnepedes such as sea lions.